THB #107: 25 Hours To Oscar

I started writing this on Friday morning. Life interceded.

This was going to be about the punditry class and how it never can admit that it doesn’t know everything definitively. (There are a few good-natured exceptions, of course.)

But Saturday morning brought waves of outside perspective, reminding me to stop staring at the navel that is one specific perspective on this Oscar thing.

What I keep getting is… it’s all over for The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and their little award party.

If you have read me for more than the last few minutes, you know that I am often an angry respondent to the death knells of the industry. The cycle is familiar by now. Forces in the industry seek what they see as game-changing shifts that are really incremental changes to the bottom line. A new paradigm arrives. Changes are made to accodate the new paradigm while also incorporating the well-trod incremental ideas. The benefits of the changes are squeezed out of the paradigm shift until they a…